Three leopards on the shirts?
Last updated at 13:28, Tuesday, 05 April 2011
In the News & Star (Monday March 28), your columnist goes on about the England football team manager’s problems and refers to the team as ‘the three lions’.
Lions or leopards?
I’d like to point out that the badge of England is in fact three leopards.
I know the heraldic beasts do look like lions, but in heraldry the position of the animal makes them leopards.
You do realise that heraldry has its own vocabulary and logic is not one of its strong points?
So when lions are ‘stretched out’ they become leopards.
COLIN CAMPBELL
Cross Street
Moss Bay
Workington
First published at 11:24, Tuesday, 05 April 2011
Published by http://www.newsandstar.co.uk
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